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Cheap asphalt provides 'green' carbon capture: Rice University chemists' product aims to enhance natural gas production at sea

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A scanning electron microscope image shows the fine pores in a carbon material created at Rice University to capture carbon dioxide from...

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New Detection Kit Helps Finding Cancerous Toxicant in Agricultural Goods

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'Flying carpet' technique uses graphene to deliver one-two punch of anticancer drugs

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Researchers have attached two drugs -- TRAIL and Dox -- onto graphene strips. TRAIL is most effective when delivered to the external...

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How bacteria control their size: By monitoring thousands of individual bacteria scientists discovered how they maintain their size from generation to generation

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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, are so uniform in size they look like they were made in a factory. How do the...

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New concept of fuel cell for efficiency and environment: It grasps both performance efficiency and removal of toxic heavy metal ions in direct methanol fuel cells

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The electro-oxidation measurements clearly showed that the adsorbed CO was removed by Cr(VI). Based on the standard reduction potential...

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'Glowing' new nanotechnology guides cancer surgery, also kills remaining malignant cells

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A new system developed at Oregon State University to improve cancer surgery uses a nanoparticle called a dendrimer to carry a drug into...

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NASA Finds Good News on Forests and Carbon Dioxide

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A new NASA study suggests that tropical forests, like this one in Malaysia, absorb more atmospheric carbon...

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Iranian Scientists Synthesize Biodiesel Fuel from Soya Oil Using Nanocatalysts

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